domingo
viernes
Ecos al leer a Swedenborg
miércoles
To a chinese Friend

Your old masters said;
The whole universe, infinite, vibrate within you;
The hundred school of thought,
The methods of government, war, and diplomacy;
the School of Law.
Taoism; seeking experimenting with the self and adapting it to the rhythm of nature.
Confucian and Taoist shifting with the music of nature.
Mohism and the idea of universal love
The Burning of the books and burial of the scholars by the first emperador
The suppression of freedom of speech (to be invented later prints) .
The infinite wall
The Wu Xing or the Five Movements;
Wood, fire, earth, metal, water; all are made of yin and yang in precise amounts.
That secret pentagon that time and his cycles have drawn
The structure of the cosmos; Mirrored in five phases:
Can you see the magic Flower?
There is a delicate Balance in the intricate movement of fire.
Geomancy
Oracle bones
Sun Tzu's and his Art of War,
The Chinese characters
I Chin and his cryptic hexagram, with a symbolic system used to perceive order in chaotic events,
The mythical Fu xi and the yellow river,
The feng shuim, the magic compass and the harmonic course of life-energy
The early instrument;
The Chinese astronomy and astrology,
The traditional Chinise medicine and music,
Military strategy and martial arts.
The magnetic river going through nature and mind
The powerful wizard from Magreb that in the book of one hundred and one night, arrive to China because he knows that there he can find the only one able to exhume the magic lamp, Aladin, and see the smoke become a genius as tall as the sky,
The world is made of correspondences, feels the wizard,
It is full of magical mirror where the small things are the key of the biggest.
In the Chinese calendar;
The sun is like fire
the moon like water.
The fire gives out light and the water reflects it
The armillary sphere and the music that sacred energy strike.
Laozi; author of the (Tao Te Ching)
The fire, the swords, the Dragons and Tigers.
The forgotten memory.
The secret mind.
All those things and thought had to be,
They had to be propitious to carry, in the course of time, your soul
Can you polish your mysterious mirror?
Let´s hear the echoes of your old master.
I ching- thought- in the dynamic balance of opposites;
The evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change
Chuang-Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly and when He woke up he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi.
Laozi -said- The name that can be named is not the real Name;
Free from desire, you experience reality; Trapped in desire, you see only appearances.
Fu Hsuan, thought, Riches and honour are the handmaids of disaster
Takakusu, wrote, stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand, pursue the light, and you will lose its source.
All are singing as moving music
They are dancing in the play of light and shadows, time and eternity
Heavy is the foundation of light.
Stillness is the source of movement. That is tao
They are talking, You can know the whole world without going out the door,
They are saying in secret tone;
Come into life, go into death.
Before you was born out of your mother, generations, thoughts, and an infinite civilization guided you,
Now you are visible,
in your place you stand with your robust soul.
and through your body, flows the universe.
La danza de los sueños

Cuando el hombre ha intentado dar una explicación del mundo que lo rodea surge el mito como una imagen palpitante de nuestro estado, un movimiento, un dibujo que representa lo incierto, lo problemático y cómico de nuestro estado, y es en éste humor en que surge el baile, la representación móvil de lo eterno, una forma de sentir el mundo, un estilo del vida, un acto que sublima a unos hasta el éxtasis religioso y enloquece a otros tras el hechizo de sensuales pasos y el turbulento movimiento de caderas.
Desde los más remotos tiempos, a trevés de geografías, religiones y filosofías, la danza ha encantado los sentidos y la mente de los hombre, incluso ha trascendido la humanidad, ascendido hasta las esferas sagradas de los dioses como un acto divino que simboliza el movimiento de la creación, la preservación y la disolución; Un ordenado ritmo que crea y rige las cosas, ya que la danza es en su naturaleza una cosa rítmica y repetida que vuelve sobre sí misma. El baile es el cosmos; Música hecha carne .
Si echamos una mirada a la historia veremos como el baile fue concebido como un principio creador del universo. De la pre-historia se han encontrado pinturas rupestres de hace más de 12.000 años donde se representaba el baile como un ritual sagrado, que gobierna el movimiento de las nubes, los cambios de las estaciones y es una forma de comunicación del cuerpo con el mundo físico y el mundo espiritual, como también lo hacían los chamanes de las tribus Colombianas en el periodo pre-Colombino. En India, entre el movimiento sensuales de pies y caderas encontraremos bailando al rey de la danza, Shiva, el bailarín Cósmico, fuente de todos los movimientos del cosmos; las pulsaciones de la sangre, los ciclos de las mareas, el despliegue de las flores, las vibraciones de la energía y el movimiento de las estrellas surgen de su movimiento divino. El propósito de su danza fue pensado como un medio de liberar los hombres de la ilusión del yo que refleja el mundo físico, ésto porque la danza induce al trance, al éxtasis y la experiencia de lo divino y por consiguiente, a la revelación de nuestro lugar en el cosmos. Desde las antiguas civilizaciones; Egipto, Grecia, Roma hasta nuestra América, el baile ha sido un acto de creación y recreación, capaz de transformar nuestras vidas.
Pero dejemos por ahora la historia, el baile sigue formando parte de nuestras vidas así como lo hizo con nuestros antepasados, es algo vivo y en evolución. Vivamos el baile en vivo, tomémonos de la mano y bailemos entre todos, descendamos a la temperatura de las calles y de los cuerpos en movimiento, al son de la música veremos cómo las diferentes formas de bailar pulen el lente a través del cual vemos la ciudad que nos rodea, ya que éste es parte de nuestra identidad, pasión y expresión. La música es nuestro espejo, el baile es nuestro reflejo.
martes
viernes
Go with the Flow
....or be the Captain of Your Own Ship, or whatever trips your trigger. Have a great 2010.
miércoles
Tawny Owl
Yesterday I went bird hunting together with Dennis Rademaker whom I met a month ago at the Veluwe.
Luck was on our side when we started off at the Oostvaardersplassen, a Nature Reserve in the centre of Holland. Upon arrival we were greeted by the most co-operative Buzzard I've ever met! Totally at ease and undisturbed, he even caught 3 mice while we were standing right next to him!
Next we got tipped off on the location of a Tawny Owl up north in the Netherlands and went looking for it. Guess it was a pretty wild idea to go driving 100 miles just on a vague description, but the fact that you are now looking at it, obviously means we found it :-)
Ended the day at the Veluwe to see the Red Deer, which completed a fantastic day.
Marine Turtle in Moorea, French Polynesia
Marine Turtle in Moorea's Lagoon. Shot with an Olympus 5050 in a waterproof case - no flash
martes
campanario
El sonido sacudiendo el silencio, llenandolo como ondas en el agua con tiempo, dramas y tragedias del mundo griego
sacred fire
Uploaded by glassysound on 22 Jun 09, 11.08AM COT.
lunes
The mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) in Glen Affric, Scotland
The mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) in Glen Affric, Scotland
Originally uploaded by David & Cheryl M
patience
this is a venus flytrap with its "mouth" open patiently waiting for an unsuspecting fly to be its lunch
Sarracenia flower without its petals
the flowers are for pollenation, mostly by bees.
one of the cooler flowers to me
sábado
Dancing tulips
jueves
enter at your own risk
what a way to go.....
Uploaded by strangemagee on 17 Jan 07, 10.14AM COT.
Compose your blog entry
1000 star hotel
Flowing Abstract Acrylic Painting
Visit my website at www.markchadwick.co.uk to see more of my work! Thanks for viewing!
miércoles
From Candles To Stars
Again one of the shots taken on blind just putting camera in my hand somehow to take a shot.
to KNOW by Browning

| to KNOW, | |
| Rather consists in opening out a way | |
| Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, | 10 |
| Than in effecting entry for a light | |
| Supposed to be without. |
BAT BOY
Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Uploaded by Krieger Conradt
Ban Sabai riverside bungalow
This photo was taken on the rooftop of a hotel next to our Ban Sabai bungalows. The building with the thatched roof is the Xayoh Riverside Café. A place where we spend our all our breakfasts. Such a lovely way to start the day. A beautiful view of the mist covered limestone mountains and watch laughing children play in the river.
Vang Vieng is een plaats met ruim 25.000 inwoners in de provincie Vientiane, 160 km ten noorden van de stad Vientiane. Het ligt aan een bocht op de oostbank van de rivier Nam Song, die uitmondt in de Lik. Het is een dorp waar de tijd had stil gestaan maar langzamerhand door meer toeristen ontdekt. Belangrijke bezienswaardigheid zijn de vele grotten in de karstheuvels van de westbank. Ook zijn er in de omgeving van Vang Vieng enkele 16e en 17e eeuwse tempels. In het district wonen Hmong stammen. Vang Vieng ligt aan de belangrijke route tussen Vientiane en Luang Prabang.
Uploaded by B℮n on 13 Nov 08, 6.10AM COT.
Umbrella for sun or rain
Xieng Khuan is a Buddha park located 25 km southeast from Vientiane, Laos in a meadow by the Mekong River. It may be referred to as Wat Xieng Khuan The name Xieng Khuan means Spirit City. The park was built by Luang Pu (Venerable Grandfather) Bunleua Sulilat. Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat was a priest-shaman who integrated Hinduism and Buddhism. At the top, there is a vantage point where the entire park is visible. An enormous 40 m high reclining Buddha, is also a park attraction. The reclining posture may represent the Buddha resting or sleeping, but more usually represents the mahāparinabbāna: the Buddha's final state of enlightenment before his death.
Their lifestyle is shaped so as to support their spiritual practice, to live a simple and meditative life. Photo taken at Buddha Park, also known as Wat Xieng Khuan 25 km southeast from Vientiane. Buddhist monks passing the enormous reclining Buddha; the Buddha's final state of enlightenment.
Een groot deel van de Laostiaase bevolking, zo’n 60% is boeddhist. Men hangt het zogenaamde Teravada-boeddhisme. In het Theravada wordt meditatie benadrukt als een essentieel onderdeel van het pad naar verlichting, samen met moreel gedrag en wijsheid. Het brengen van een einde aan het lijden is het hoofddoel van het Theravada boeddhisme. De Boeddha legde verder een zeer gedetailleerde gedragscode voor de Monniken neer: de Vinaya. Over het algemeen worden monniken door de Boeddha aangemoedigd om wereldse aangelegenheden en passies achter zich te laten, zodat zij gemakkelijker in staat zijn een staat van vrede en wijsheid te bereiken, en sterke ongezonde emoties zoals haat, verlangen en lust te overwinnen. Een Monnik zoals hierboven in z'n oranje gewaad, kaalgeschoren en met sandalen aan de voeten is niet meer weg te denken uit het straatbeeld van Laos.
Er wordt van iedere jongeman verwacht, dat zij een poosje (van een week tot enkele maanden) als monnik leven. Zo tussen hun schooltijd en hun werkende leven in. Het wordt beschouwd als een overgangsrite en zij verwerven op die wijze aanzien voor zichzelf en hun familie.
La virgen
i send to you a nice instant in low
i captured it in the obscure lens of death
for ever image of Eva holding her son´s breath
for ever dreams of our conscious sleeping self
the eternal virgen
She crys,
She talks in secret
She stands alone
along the marble of the graves
she hears in the silence the murmuring dreams
of person for long time gone
Grey and white the virgen for ever cry
in an instant the lady dreams she is dead
she is eternal and the dead person she is
A book that for ever reads and writes
and are the letters of time, the letter of dreams
the silent letter of times , the murmuring letter of a sunrise
towering and divergencing beams
standing leaves
up and down
electric waves
glassy sounds are its blades
and up and down vibrates
upon eternity town she waits
A realm of colors through these feathers
Thaadi Arangu
View On Black
Someday all the paths we walk will be erased in the tides of time
serán olvidados en la marea del tiempo
domingo
LUSINE

eff McIlwain has been producing his visceral, melodic strain of abstract electronic music as Lusine for 10 years now. Originally a Texas native, Jeff attended CalArts in 1998, studying 20th-century electronic music and sound design for music and film. Soon after, he met Shad Scott and put out his self-titled debut as Lusine for Isophlux. Since then, McIlwain relocated to Seattle and began steadily releasing his music on Ghostly International (home to 2004’s landmark Serial Hodgepodge as well as its successful followup remix album Podgelism), Hymen, and U-Cover. McIlwain has also contributed tracks to various compilations and remix releases on Mute, !K7, Kompakt, Asthmatic Kitty, and Shitkatapult. His Language Barrier full-length on Hymen Records
was something of a departure, as McIlwain focused less on jagged rhythmic detail and more on the layers of ambience that lay beneath the percussion of his previous releases.
McIlwain has performed throughout the US and abroad, including a set at London’s esteemed Fabric nightclub, and an ambient multimedia performance at Seattle’s Triple Door in which he collaborated with video artist Scott Sunn. McIlwain has recently been involved in two film projects, co-scoring David Gordon Green’s 2008 film Snow Angels (with Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell), and scoring Kevin Bray’s 2009 film Linewatch (with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Omari Hardwick). McIlwain’s much-anticipated latest album, A Certain Distance, will be released on Ghostly International in 2009.
